Medicaid expansion- Taxes would go to other states

The Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion is good for Missouri and good for the majority of its citizens. The opposition is not based on reality but ideological positions supported by distortion.

Tim Jones, Missouri House speaker, said the $8.4 billion from the federal government comes from Missouri taxpayer pockets. This should mean to him that there is more reason to sign on to Medicaid expansion. He seems so opposed to taxes of any kind that he fails to understand that keeping Medicaid expansion from benefiting people of Missouri means the taxes they paid would go to citizens of other states. That is a bad idea.

"The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the Medicaid expansion will add very little to what states would have spent on Medicaid without health reform, while providing health coverage to 17 million more low-income adults and children. In addition, the Medicaid expansion will reduce state and local government costs for uncompensated care and other services they provide to the uninsured, which will offset at least some - and in a number of states, possibly all or more than all - of the modest increase in state Medicaid costs. Expanding Medicaid is thus a very favorable financial deal for states." (Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

Specific values for the state come from a University of Missouri study: 25,000 new jobs in 2014; $7 billion in labor income from 2014-20; $9.6 billion in value added output to the economy from 2014-20; $856 million in tax revenue for state and local governments 2014-20; and $300 million in cost savings from 2014-16.

Only someone thoroughly blinded in their extreme "right" mind could not see that Medicaid expansion is good for the citizens of Missouri.

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Medicaid expansion- Taxes would go to other states

The Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion is good for Missouri and good for the majority of its citizens. The opposition is not based on reality but ideological positions supported by distortion.